May, 1912 
OTHING can 
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charm to the gar- 
den than an at 
tractive 
SUN 
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A BEAUTIFUL HOME 
you are one who would build this year, 
were you sure of the results—this ad is 
intended for you. 
Any home may be beautiful—that is, correct in 
its lines—its proportions—its comfort and conven- 
ience, because taste is the only thing that deter- 
mines what a home shall be. One doesn’t buy a 
Painting forthe amount of paint on it but for the 
art, and so with a home. 
DISTINCTIVE HOMES AND GARDENS 
We have put some of ourbest thoughts into our 
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illustrated with scores of homes we’ve built, des- 
cribing every phase of the subject and telling how 
to avoid the usual pitfalls in building. 
No. 1—45 designs, $1000 to $6000 
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of meat. It is not improbable that you can 
also catch your own fish. 
Indian-puddings and _ berry shortcakes 
and apple pies or pumpkin pies make home- 
made desserts good enough for anybody. 
Samp or grits, which are not very unlike 
boiled slowly all day, make most delicious 
food. It is worth the while to study the 
secret delights stored in vegetables, berries 
and corn. The field is full of investigation 
and invention. 
If you are in the peach belt you have an- 
other of the all-around good things. One 
can almost live on uncooked peaches and 
grapes, but they can also be transformed 
into numerous luxuries. Add to a plate of 
peaches and a plate of grapes a slice of 
home-made bread, with peanut-butter— 
eaten slowly and thoroughly chewed. But 
eat your peaches also slowly. 
In fact, anywhere in the country one per- 
son may live comfortably well in a well- 
ordered home for five or six cents a day. 
Then you may can and preserve a full sup- 
ply of fruits and vegetables for the Winter 
months. In the course of five or six years 
there will be several other things, like ap- 
ples, multiplying beyond the home supply. 
These will go to market and add to your 
purchasing money. There will also be a 
surplus of berries, if keeping on planting 
the shoots that come up from the stock. 
From a single acre of berries it will be 
easy to take in two or three hundred dollars 
each year, and there will be an increasing 
income from all the other directions I have 
indicated. However, do not be tempted to 
run your homesteads at first for market and 
second for home. This is a blunder made 
everywhere. There are tens of thousands 
of American country places which have the 
sale atmosphere dominant over the home 
atmosphere. Plant for home, think of 
home, and work for home. That is the 
only way to achieve true happiness in the 
home. 
BANANA CLOTH 
HERE is not a village in India that has 
not its clump of banana trees and not a 
village in which the fruit is not gathered 
and the fiber in the stalk wasted. It has 
been left to the Chinese to teach us how 
the tons of banana fiber thrown on the rub- 
bish heap every year can be converted into 
banana cloth and sold at a most remunera- 
tive price. The process of manufacture is 
very simple and quite within the reach of 
the natives of India, particularly those— 
and there are thousands of them—who have 
had some little textile training in cotton or 
jute mills. One-year-old plants are selected 
and the stalk is unrolled and steamed over 
cauldrons of boiling water till soft. It is 
a simple matter then to remove the green 
outer skin, by passing strips of the stalk 
through an instrument provided with a 
couple of blunt blades, which act as scrap- 
ers. The fiber thus obtained is placed in 
cloth, and pounded in order to drive out ex- 
cess moisture, and is next cleaned and 
twisted into yarn for weaving. Banana 
cloth is said to be eminently suitable for 
tropical wear and is very durable. At pres- 
ent the price would seem to be almost pro- 
hibitive, as a roll of banana cloth, five yards 
long and one yard wide sells for about $5.70. 
As the enterprise is a brand new one, high 
prices are to be expected; but they are sure 
to right themselves as the demand for this 
kind of cloth grows, and the suppiy en- 
deavors to keep pace with it. 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Unique designs, 
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Construction make 
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Sole Manufacturers 
Glendale Long Island 
Sunshine in the home is 
essential to the family’s 
health and optimism. Yet 
thousands of homes are 
denied its benefits through 
fear of its destructive effects 
on draperies and coverings. 
At last you can have dra- 
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protection from the light—which are 
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colors against both sun and water. 
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Do not confuse these fabrics with the many 
merely so-called ‘‘sunfast’’ materials which 
are offered. Every bolt of the genuine 
Orinoka goods bears a tag which authorizes 
the merchant to refund the money for any 
piece that changes color. Jnsist on seeing 
this tag. 
Orinoka Sunfast Fabrics afford all-satisfying 
choice of weaves, designs and colorings, in- 
cluding original and exclusive ideas which 
will strongly appeal to those who value 
individuality in housefurnishings. At the 
leading stores everywhere. Ask your dealer 
for our book, ‘‘Draping the Home.”’ 
THE ORINOKA MILLS 
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Chicago San Francisco 
New York 
